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Story Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
- Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put…
- Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God.…
- To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift…
- Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary…
- My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that…
- I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because…
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